UNIT 17: PRACTICE ACTIVITIES AND TASK FOR LANGUAGE AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

This unit focuses on three categories of activities and tasks that are designed to give learners opportunities to practice and extent their use of language, but in different ways. First, the controlled activities gives students repeated practice in accuracy and the form of the target language, and allow them to make few mistakes. In others words the learners can only use certain items of language and this activity gives students practice the target language correctly. Second, freer activities in which the teacher can predict to some extent what language the student will need to use. In other words, it is less controlled and students use language accurately and communicative. Third, free activities allow students to use whatever language thy whish in order to complete the task. In other words, it is an activity with real-world outcome that allow students practice in communicating. To sum up, the productive skills can be classified according to how much teachers control students´ use of language, but it is not always possible to categorized activities as controlled, freer or free as it depends on how teacher uses them. So as future teacher I will use several kinds of activities to make my classes more interesting to motivate my students.

Bibliography:

• Mary Spratt, Alan Pulverness, Melanie Williams (2001) TKT Teaching Knowledge Test course Module 1,2 and 3 
•   https://prezi.com/fyfhay4r2zel/unit-17-practice-activities-and-tasks-for-language-and-skills-development/#
•  Brian Tomlinson, (2011) Materials Development in Language Teaching